Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 16, 1886, Page 1

Packe's and Their Emploves Aunounce a War to the Kuif ¥MPLOYERS STAND TOGETHER #doth Sides Demand U @urrender—The Beef M Green Hands mploy Boycott Th preondition n Go Out ratened, T CRICAGO the Bre.] and bitter strucgle betwe the packers and employes at the stock y is inevitable The ordering out of Armour’s beef meu s Jooked upon as the signal for war, All at- tempts by Delegates Barry and Butler to n gotiate or compromise the questions raised by Struggle Complicated. Oct. 15, Tele ram to The opinion is general thatalong Specinl the strike hnve signally failed. The packers have not shown a disposition to discuss the matter in an officlal mauner and the strikersare disposed to reward this treatment in the light of a challenze. After the m 1ng of district assembly b7 early this morning Mr. Barry said to a reporter: “We have formally declared — war on the bix pork speculator and it will be war to the knife and the knife to the hilt, T shall wet to Richmond now tefore the con- vention adjourns and you way depend ipon Armour's meats throughont the United States will be an unknown quantity in less than three months, We intend to fight an ageressive battle, and Armour will either be brought to_ terins or be. relegated 10 the osition of n dead packer, nolwithstanding Jis millions, Asfaras the inen are concerned, we shall take eqre of them, besides the elosing down of the industry heré docs not of nec sity de ay with it. The demand is bound to be supplied elsewhere if not here,” lllus- trating thegeneral feeling among the packers, one of the most prominent ones said to a reporter when approached on the subjec “We won’t submit to any system but that of ten honrs for a day's work at the ten hours’ iy In other words, an unconditional sur- renderor nothing. 1 attended a meeting of packers the other when the matter was ully discussed. hands will be hired and broken in rapidly. This can be easily done, but of take time to till all pl ciation, intend to st first. We have advertised for men all over the country, and already men are beginn tocome inas a result of these azencies. Armour and the Angle-American will be running with full Torces next week, ‘This will win our battle. When these two houses are runnfng_ full-handed the fight s practi- cally won. We can ecasily lay up fora few weeks, or months, for that matter. ‘T'en hours we will have and we don't want to see any committee either. 11 the men wish to return on that basis they can do so as individuals.” ‘The opinion of this packer was read to others and pretty genevally indors T'he great tight between the empl employes of the sto'k yards. IOKE Ser10us proportio Armour are to make the test case and establl lent of which shall nave the sup or or capital. Al efforts ata compro- mise or even consulfation with the packers having failed, the strikers wet last night ana decided to call out thebeei butchers and tie result was about one thousand five hundred men quit work. Tnnmediately a eommittee of men went over to Armours renair shops. at Forty-ntth street, near Halstead street, where between fitty and seventy men are employed. ey went in, had a Shore falk, and the men quitina body, all, including the machiniste, roing out, he engin 5 at vers and macy Armour’s also quit work (his morning, New men continue to arrive hourly, and this moining the Lake Shore durmy brought over two loads to Armour’s house, On the ast trip, about 10 o'c , the train was locked all the way down from Forty-seventh street, frefght cars having been lett on the side tracks and switches in_ such & manner 1l the train coulduw’t pass. Ulti- mately the men were compelled to kel ont and walk. The new arrivals all enter by the rear entrance, and immediately o to work. From the re with whicli eaeh house hrings its quota there is little doubt that the packers have agents oat hiring wen, The new comers are looked an contemptuonsly by the locked out men, and alled “Haoosiers!” “Seals 1" choiee names. It is timated that Armour has twelve hindred of them at wori ‘e seale of wages which the packers offer their men 15 as follows: Sealders, $5.00 and § shovers, #3.00: mess moss pork choppers, arity £2.25 and $5,00; cellur men, i tank men, $1.73 and $2.257 coopel 200, ''This is on « basis of ten hours' yiay for ten hours' p; Cudah men should sed some surprise that the me Armour for the trouble, Nelse Morris denies the statement credited 1o him that the affair was a move on the part of Armour to drive Swift and himself out of the trade, and that he was endeavoring to drive all the business from Chicago to Omaha and Kansas City. JThe followinz document, addressed to {iz I'llm Public,” was given to the press to- night: Ciicaao, 111, Oct. 15, llu\llle noticed the lmh].shml report of remarks of Mr, Thomas 1 farry, of the committee of the Knights ot Jabor, in which he throws the onus of the present lanor troubles at the stoek yards upon the hotise of Armour & Co., and holds taem alone responsible for its rosuits, we, the re- maining pork and beef packers” of Chicago, Who have entered their protest against the eight-hour system, do hereby announce that Wo are unanimois i our action and that Armonr & Co. are no more responsible for the present clictmstanee than we ourselyes are individually and_collectively. Al state ments and rumors that Arour & Co, are standing in the way of, o1 in any manuer op posine the amieable sofution of the question AL issie, are entirely withont foundation. “The discrimnation against Anmonr & Co,'s dressed beef business by the ordering out of the company’s butehers (s equally unjust and unreasonable, as their competitors, Swift & Go and Morris & Co., are fully in accord and Sympathy with the ten-hour system, Tho Allcrton Packing Company, ' Botsford Packing Company, G, W. Higglns & Co., Hately Bros, Kobeit Warren, Michener Bros. & Co., Washington Butchers” Sons, Angio-Awerican Provision Company, Un® denwood & Co. Fioyd, Huffman & Co . Lo B. Doud& Co.," Jones'& Stiles, John Mor- rell & Co. (Limited), William' 1. Selber- horn, International Provision Company, C; L. Hutchinson, of Chicago Packinz and Provisou Company, Union Stoek Yards “Cransit Company, by John B. Sher- i, General manager, George . Baldwin & Ca,, Jonn Cudahy, Moran & {ealy, CiitcAGo—Messrs. Armour & Co.. Gentle- men: L beg to inform you that Swiit & Co, and Nelson Morris have contributed several thousand dollars in support of the movement inaugurated at the stock yards in favor of the ten_lour systen. s (Sluned) . Botskonb, o it will be seen the packers are acting as a unit, and it looks like 'war to the knife, he prospect of 8 seltlement ou ' a com promiise is becoming a thing of the past. A K. of L. wan said this morning thit he wou'd net be surprised to see a commities walt on the switehmen and ask them to set out the cars. ‘That would have the eflvet of blogking up the business entirely. ang ot Piukerton wen weie sent over to Aruiour's heef house this morning and they are gradunlly being spread out over the entire packing house distriet. 1t Is claimed by the packers that Armonr's and Fowler's hbuses will be ready to kill early next week, but the packing company will tiot care 10 do 0. ‘lhey say they have wired all over the country for wen, and they have no intention of resuining work at anything but ten hours. As they say there is nothing fo arbitrate or comproniize It 1s evident tiat all efforts in kil direction will be stopped. 3 Now men continued to artive during the forencon and this atternoon it was reported that Armour had 1,30 men eugased. The A COMPROMISE TMPOSSIBLE. | | | | tion an tiic THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. position yards, ly rton er's office to hear nim explain regarding the duticnlty at the s He denied having been directly or indi responsible for the presenee of Pink men at the stock yards, Nevertheles he ap- proved of the fact that they have been brought there and would contribute toward Keeping them there. They afforded a pro ut eould 10t be otherwise obtained tection t It was false that he wasin the way of an amicable injustment of the d 08, In com Ny with other pac he had made A revolt against what he was justiied in - believing to be an imposi Mr, Barry sug- £ an out- Armour partof the mei gested tiat there was 110 daniger break. This Messrs, Allerton " anc denied. Armour expressed svinpathy for the nien Torked out, and expressed fear that the stiike would end in bloodshed. Barry said e was unalde to s low the packers' association could refuse a sertlenicnit on a slight techni- interests were in anded Armour a te the last batch en , and cality when such great volved. A messenie s Announelng of led out. aring the ed the interview with the hat i lits in bis employ had, b He read the m paper in shreds, ele remark, “It is ten tours or nothing aloud THE KNIGH OF LABOR, The Sonthwestern Strike From a Knight's Standpoint, Ricumoxn,, Va., Oct. 15.—When the gen- eral assemibly of the Knights of Labor went into session this morning at 9 o'clock the first business to be completed was the elec- tion of the remaining general officers and two members of the co-operative board. Tt was expeeted that this would take buta short time, and the consideration of the report on the revision of the constitution presented by the committee on law would be resumed. This. in turn, was to be foliowed by reports from other committecs, nearly all of which are ready to report. Anong the first to be presented is the report of the committee on the state of the order, of which Ralph Beau- mont is chairman, This report endorses ihe report of the committee on legislation, of which Beaumont is chairman, and mends that the supplementary repoit of the same committee, in whieh a plan for a con recom gress composed of representatives of the Kuights of Labor be established at Washing- assemblies for their it is daily in receint Kuights ot~ Labor and lers commenting his idea. The commit- on the state of the order also en- dorses the general masterworkman’s address to the general assembly and recommends the endorsenient of the repurt of Ciarles I Lichman, special ngent appointed by the general mas: ter workman to represent the order before the congressional commiitee appointed 1o in- vestigate the cau il ¢t of the south- weiern railway strikes. In his report My, Liteliman recites that the hearings were held at various plices in Texas and Arkansas, wid says: VTl testiony in behall of the tai road” was mainly to show what great damare had been causea by the strike to the railroad proverty and "com- meree, that it hid been begun on a frivolous pretest without real eause, and that the order of the Knights of Labor was directly responsible for all the damage dome_and ail the acts of violence committed. With the unlimited resourees at their command, it was comprratively easy forthe railroad ofticials to caretully drill their witnesses in a line ot stutements whien should fit each other, and this preliminary drilling w sfully ap parent in the testimony given. fot of parrots they all re-cchoed the statement that the only eause they hae ever heard assizned ton. be sent to all local u‘ oval. Mr. Beaun of letters both from for the strike was the discharge of a man uamed Hall, of Marshall, ‘I “T'he first business of ti eral assembly this morning was the completion of the list of general officers by the eleetion of L. T C. Schli of Massachusetts, and I M. Broughton, of Raleigh, C., as members of the general co-oporat David E iibson, of Hamilton, Ont-, was elected Can- dian supply agent. His duty is to receive supplies of printed documents of all Kinds in buik and distribute them to- the local assei- blies throughout Canada. This completed whe full corps of general officers and their in- stallation immediately followed, Powderiy, addressing tt:e general assem- bly, exj i full confidence in the men elected and pledged hineif to the faithiul performance of the duties entrusted to \im, He urged upon the assembly the importance of temperance and aske them o endeavor to impress the importance of this subject un the various local assemblies. The gene master workman installed all the ofticers elected. None of them made speeches. “The following resolution was presented by Delegate Barrett, of Pennsylyan WiikiizAs, Réports bhave been cireulated 1 impressions been created by the press of the country rezarding the position of the Kni:zhts of Labor upon the question of social oquality, and WA, We believe the welfare of the order in the sonth requires that this general assembly take such action as will dispel these wrong iinpressions therefore, ved, That the organization of the Knights of Labor promises civil and political equality of all men, and in the broad tield of bor, it recognizes no distinetion on account of color, but it has no purpose to_ interfere with or disrupt social relations which may exist hetween the different races in the vai oug portions of the connt; ‘I'is resolution was adopted without de- the day the committce on the state ommendaed the endorsement iarles N. Litehmian, special inted by the goneral master worl con- gressional committee appointed to investi- gate the cause 1d effects of the south- western railway strike. The revort reviews both sides of the question at considerable leneth, and says it iy easy enough now to make Martin 1rons a scapegoat and say he ordered the strike without authority, but the truth is that every local assembly voted to give the diwstrict board power 1o demand an adjustment of the grievances complained of, and tho reinstatement of Brother Hall, mong the interesting facts developed in the course of the investigation was the existence of a black list upon which were placed the names of all L ons dis- rgod. ‘Phere is reason to believe that these black lisis are interchanged among railroaas, thus making it dificult for men discharged by one road to get employment oA unother, At the afternoon sesslon it was decided to hold the next aunual convention at Minne- apolis in October, 1587, In the evening Frank Wilkins, of the state executive board of the Knizhts of Laoor of Wisconsin, telegrapbed as follows to . E. Chattleld,’ Milwaukee: SInsert in all labor papers and advertise in of the rej agent upy man to represent the order before the chairman loeal papers, over my signature, that all Kknights are hercby mstructed and all work- fngnien requested to keepaway from A rmour, of Chicago. ‘Tho cause of his men I8 your own."” s Fighting Roads Pool, CuicAGo, Oct, 15-A Daily News special from Indianapolis, Ind,, says: It is author- itatively stated heve tbat the long continued Jitigation between the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Weste and the Cin- ciunatl, Sandusky & Cleveland roads will be ‘speedily bivught 10 & termination by the consolidation ¢ the two lines under the name, “Indianapolis, Lloomington & West- ern,”" ‘Ulie new road will be 624 miles long, ana will run from Peoria, 11k, to Cleveland, O, The Stiking Switchmen, MiLwaAvker, Wis., Oet. 1h.—Superinten- dent Clurke, of the « ago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad, says his road has seeured enough new men to wove its Lainsat Mine- apolis. despite the strikers, up to 9 o'clock this morning. ‘The other roads involved have not sectired help suflicient o wove their trains, L D Donovau and Sam Pateh. Rocuesyes, N. Y, Ot 15.—Donoyan, fwenty-two packing house firms at the yards | who jumped off the Bioukiyu bridge, 1s here this aftarncon issued a eircular in which they dectare they will stand together for the {en-hour system, and that statements and rumors that Armour & Co. are standivg in way of, or in any manner opposing an ami- catle solution of the question at lsue, are entirely without foundation, A tie solicitation of P. D. Armour. 8, P. A Barry and 8 0, Bt ki e bz ok |t v exawiniug the Geneseo falls, where Sam Putch wads bis celebrated leap 10 death over fifty yeats azo. Donovan will erecta plat- forin wud ativimpt the saiae leap. D Nobraska aud lowa Weather. For N ebruska aud Iowa: Fair weathr, sta- OMAHA, ANOTIIER BLOW FOR BAYARD, | Oonsul Greenbaum Adds One More Drop to His Bitter Cup. | STATE DEPARTMENT DECEIVED Politicians Disapps d Over Cleves land's Departure—Garfield's Une dertaker Claims an Unpaid Bill=Capital News, Fresh Tr ihle Kor Bayard, WASIHINGTON, Oct. 15.—[Special Telegram to the BEE. | ~The state department is hardly out of oue trouble before it is in anot Just when Bayard had gotten Sedg s back fiom Mexico and Cutting cut off avd out of sight, Greenbaumm turns up onee more atthe Samoan islands. When Greenbaum appointed consul to Samon he lett for 8 «© before the senate confirmed hin, While he was at the post word canie to the state department of his peeuliar conduct, and it was thouzht, of course, his nomination would be withdrawn from the senate. But it was not, and finally the senate did contirm hit, the state departnient not telling it of eenbaun’s action. But advices again me to the department of his peculiar actions in Samoa, so that when e informed the depariment that he intended to come home for A vacation Bayard told him to come here, When he did come, about two months ago, Secrctary Bavard informed him that his connnission lad been withheld, and that le was expieted to o resien at o on Greenbaum — asked — for time to go home to San Francisco to prepare his resignation, and this was granted. Mean- while Seered 1y Bayard appointed Mr. Bate of Delaware, a legal envoy, a la Sedgwick, to proceed to the Samoan islands and straighien out the damages done by Green- baum. ‘The department waited for Green- baum’s resignation, but it came not, and finally Bates reached Samoa. He found Greenbaum already there, mstalled still as counsel and refusing to give up. The state department was dumb founded when they heard that Greenbaum had played them false, The disnity of the angust department was insuited, but what to do they did not know. Greenbaum still held on. Bates began to myestigate and discovered that a Frenchman ad died in- Somoa and left an estate, and Greenbaum, as American consul, had been avpointed adminisirator. The reason he was selected was because the American nation was supposed to be the most triendly to France and the Freneh had no representative there. Bates continued his investigations and found that Green- bawm had been untaithiul as (rustee to the estate and had misapprovriated some of the funds. ‘The state departent was notitied atonce. Then bexan a correspondence be- tween Bates and the depariment which has harrassed the seeretary greatly. The officials are very cautious as 1o what the Tiiey acknowledge the fact that Greenbanm was appointed tristee, but say that they can say 10 wore about the matter. 'The state depait- ment is, however, negotiating through bates surent of the estate. While periiaps U States could not” be held legally cecount for Greenbauw’s shorteoming the department thought it would be best for the United States’ honor to settle the. little matter out of Un am’s pocket without any fuss, The departiment hoped to do so without its caining pablicity. Greenbaum, it Is said, is still In Samoa, anid is just about to write his resighation, ' Secretary Bayard hopes so. DISAPPOINTED POLITICIANS. The president’s sudden departure last night has left quite a number of anxions poli- ticians stranded. They had no idea Mr., Cleveiand eontemplated leaving the capital even for a day or two, and there was much surprise and vonsternation at the announce- ment this morning. ‘They are here from New York, Michlzan, Connecticut, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, New 'Hampshire, ' Vermont, New Jersey, South Carolina and Missouri, Ex-Senator Barnum was added to the list yesterday. and Representatives StahInecker, of New York, and Ermentrout, of Pennsyl- vania, h a number of followers, A number of New Jer polit e seattered about the hot They are all looking after the offices and are not pleased that the president should give them the slipin this way. Seeretary Man- hing can't be seon by e and they are o a bad state of mind. Many left on the after- noon trains for home to-day. 'S FUNERAL EXPE Ave ney n paid the amount of my bill for the ( ld funeral,” said Under- taker Spear to your corresponident to-night. 11is charge was™ something over $1,000, ana ineluded "the expense of geiting carriages, for which-the hackmen de: led $10 a day. None could be obtained s price on that occasion, because of the y great demand for ven‘cles of every kind, but the extra- economicul board of audit, never for a minute thinking of the difiiculty’ on such a day of oblaining carringes, especially when so large a number was needed, refused to allow more than the ordinary charge for such conyey- ances, and so cut down Spear’s bill so that he could mot have taken it in payment except at SES UNPAID, o great sacr fice. He refused to aceept the sum allowed in Jien of his eharge, it being only about a4 third of the amount, trusting that congress would in due time justice. But he never yeu receive money, About § vas ‘allowed by con- gress to pay the expenses of the Garfield funeral, but the board of audit so pared down the bills that & large balance was left to turn into the treasu r him t the "y 2 INCIT GUESTS, mress failed to In view of the fact that malke the necessary appropriation for the en- tertainment of the representatives of France to witness the dedication ceremonies of the Bartholdi statue, the president coula not in- vite the guests in the nawe of the nation In order, however, to manifest the proper courtesy of the government 1o the French re- wblic, the president instrueted Secretary of State Bavard to authorize Minister M| toextend the invitation in the name of Assistant Secretary of said to your correspondent to-day that the matter had been agreed upon only u few days ago, when the instructions were imme- diately eabled to Minister McLean, He did not know how many would beinvited, *This is all left with the minister,” said the assist- ant secretary, “and 1 suppose e will be gov- erned by the wishes of the French author ties as to whom invitations should be ex- tended.” ¥ AN INJURED LAWY ER'S SUIT, Mr. Jerome A. Manning, the lawyer who s debarred from practice before the Ala- ma elalms' court, iutends to make things wari for the three judges. He represented over 600 cases, and claims thut he has been injurea greatly by the action of the court. He has instituted suit against Judge Freneh, of Massachusetts, tor $100,000, e next intends wsue Judge Harlan, in Towa, and Judge Draper, in New York, for like anounts, He also clains that Seeretary Bayara, in his ruling and certification, ias not complied with the Iaw, and is liablé to lnpeachiment, A WESTWARID-BOUND OFFICIAL Colonel Switzler, chief of the bureau_of statisties, left this morning for a visit 1o Ne- braska and his old howe at Columbus, Mo. Katen By Hogs. SteriaNa, (1L, Oect. 15, M Gr ! well, & widow aged seventy years, left her | howe on Tuesday afternoon between 3 and | 4 o'clock to visit Mr. MeWilliams, distant about three-quarters of a mile. Shedid not roturn on ‘Tuesday night,but nothing strange 1 was thought of it, but anxiety eame when Wednesday worniug did not bring hor, and search was made. and atter a time bones and pieces of her bloody fiesh were found sur- Mis. en- Founded by @ drove of hogs, Who were light { ing over lier remains, which were identitied | by seraps of clothing 'as those of Mrs. Green- well. 1tis supposed that the old lady faintea end {hat the hogs attacked her before she i rexained consolousness, | DBEACH RETIRE The Australian OArsman Withdraws From Public Lite. | Losvos, Oct. 184 a m.—[New | Herald Cable—-8pecial 1o the Ber.)—J. G, Decble, {he Australian sportsman and backer of Beach, on his way 1o join the latter at | Plymouth on the steamer Gisitania for Sydney, called on the editor of the Sports- man. The Intter this morning says: “Mr, | Deeble authorizes me to state that William Beach has decided finally to retire fnto pri- vate life. The champion has beaten all the promment sculls of his day and therefote considers he is en- utled toreston his laurels, His private affairs now elaim solarge a portion of his at- tention that he is unable any longer to d vote the necessary time to the pursaitiof seull- ing. Healso feels that age is creeping on him and that though e is still well and hearty, the strict ordeal of traning will be found too trying for his constitution. In leaving the tield for younger men to contest, he believes he is tak- ing the vight course, and considers that hav- ing beaten every seuller of any pretentions to the championship, he has done all that can veasonably be expected of him.” On this announeement, and Beceh's retusal to aceept Hanlan's ehallenge, it is thought probable | that the latter's frionds will claim the cham- pionship of the world for him. - Beccher's Views on Retribution. Loxbos, Oct. Mh—itev. Henry Ward Beecher delivercd an adaress to-day in Rey. R Parker's City Temple, on *Pulpit Work.” He dwelt upon theaid the newspaper ren- dered the nreacher. A number of questions were asked Mr. Beecher as to his idea of the doctrine of retribution, and his answers caused intense excitement, several times the audience rising to their feet and loudly pro- testing against his vie Mr. Beecher re- torted that any man believing in retribution, who married, entered societs and sniled.w: a monster. e preferred working throngh a fear springing from love,rather than throuzh a fear of the barbaric doctrine of retrib- ution. ———— Doings in France. Pans, Oct. 15.—~The Temps announces that beyond the credits required to alter the infantry rifles and to contiune the artiller experiments, General Boulanger will not ask for extraordinary military eredits. “The employes of = the Revanches ofli who were arrested Wednesday for " carrying in public lampoons on Bismarck, havebeen released. M. Perya- mont, the director of the paper, Will bringzan action against the anthoritics for violation of the press law. Owing to the hostile attitude of some Metz tradesmen _during’the visit of the Crown Prinee Frederick William to that city, the German officars resident there have boytotted the shops, acting. it is supposed, unider orders of the Gergiun government. - Affairs in German™, 3R, Oct. 15, —Ofigial circles here con- tinue hovetul of an_ wicable settiement of the Bulzarian question. “I'he conservatives in the reichstaz will pro- pose a motion to replace the military septe- mate by an unfived perioa. The effective army projects liave been ostensibly dond by the government, in_ order to the conservatives to take the initintive, The oflicial statement issued yesterday shows that the value of exports from Ger- many to America dujng the fiseal year end- ing in Septenber was $20,000,000 more than that for the preceding fiseal year, nperor Willlam hios aceepted an invita- tion from the regent of Brunswick to go boar hunting in the Hartz mountaips at the end of this month, Delegates to Lnverty's Unveiling. Pants, Oct. 15—~The following are the ad- ditional names of delegates who attend the Bartholdi’s statue dedication ceremonies in New York harbor: M. Robert, chief of the department of publie instruction: Baron and Baroness Salavador, Commandant Pusy, of the Ecole Polytechnique: Colonel Laussedote, director of the Ecole Desarts et Metiers: Licutenant Villegente, aide-de-camp to M. Ande, minister of marine and the colonies, and 3L Hieland, the delegate of the Paris chamber of comnierea, Thoy will leave for New York to-morrow. ——— Gonzalez Still Living. Crry oF MExico, Oect. 15.—The rumors originating in the United States of the assas- sination of General Gonzalez, ex-president of the republic and now governor of the state of Guanajuato, have reached here, but in- quiry shows that there is no truth in them. Governor Gonzalez at the latest accounts, was in_good health and attending to the duties o1 his oflice, i A Polish Bank, Brriiy, Oct. 1, —Eighty Polish land own- crshield a meeting at Posen to-day and re- <olved to establish adoan and trust bank with @ capital of 000,000 marks, toassist the Poles in resisting the efforts of the government to Germanize the Poligh provinees, Treason in Song. Benriy, Oct. 15.—Abbe Saboura, of Vion- ville, is being prosecuted in the Metz court for havin had patrlotic French hynng sung in his chureh, The German protecution asks that the abbe ‘be imprisoned six months. Judgment was deferred sale of Lorillard’'s Fine Stock. Jonxsrows, N, Y., Oct. 15,—At the Ran- cocas breeding farm to-day Piarve Lorillard sold all of his stallions and brood mares, The prices recelved were fair, aud the total re- alized was 8142,505 for eighty-three lots, The averago for the five stallions sold was $6,390, and for brood mares $1,422, Iroquois, the winner of the English Dérby, was bought by William H. Jackson, of the Belle Meade farm, Nashville, Tenn,, who, in a short speeeh, declared he bought the carrier of American colors on foreign soil for fear he might be takeu away. The price paid was $20,000, e Cutting Oyerlund Rates, SAN FaNcisco, et 15.—Rate eutting on overland fares, which has been practiced in a quiet way heyetofore, I8 now done openly, The sehedule rate to New York is $81, but it is stated that tickets apebeing sold as low s 807, Another rate war similar tothat of five months ago is belldwed to be Imminent, This state of aifairsis due to the failure of the attempt of local BEeE agents Lo forn an association for ntlal protection against rate cuiting, | e Chicago Gews the Educators Cir 0, Oct. 1.-<To-day, for the first time, it became positively known that the National Educationsl sssociation will hold its next meeting in Clicago. The selection of a place of meeting rested with the execu- tive eommttee. 'l"‘e leading feature of the acresment is with the railroads, to the effect that tickets will be seld for round fare, plus §2, which will pay for s membership ficket in the association, and thus in turn will en- title the purchaser of the ticket fo have it ofticially stwmped for the return trip, - A Stupendous Clai Prrrsnusa, Oct, 15,—The claimants to Hatlem commonsin New York have finally completed wll the details necessary to begin their legal fight, and within.ten days will tile in the United States eirenit court in New A ork a stupendous bill in eguity. “The valu- ation of the land js §30,700,000, and they will be willing to seitle on 4 basis 'of 2 per cent. - atal Hotel Fire, Erizapeay, N, J,, Oc . —~The hotel, at Roselle, was totally destroyed by fire today. Johauna Sullivan, a laundress, s burned to death. The hotel was viluel 2,400 and was owued by Colonel Juiies Moore, and tue G. G. Brown_estate. of I} beth, and Sanfoud K., of New York, ‘The insurance is $1,500, York | SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1856, NUMBER 110, The Slayer of John Schon Tells How He Committed the Deed. I ren | | Work of the Great Church Conven- tion in Chicago, 1l Oct. 15—The Protestant pal convention was opened this after IT WAS NOT EX Reports of the Disasters Along the Gulf Oaly Too True. | CHICAGO, Episc noon by the reading of prayers by Rev. C. A, Richardson, of Rhode Island. The message > HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST. | from the house of bishops, while expressing HE WANTED HIS VICTIM'S WIFE. wi sympathy for a knowledize of the g With Terrib rning With Terrible | qoo0 ot doom it Wholes | o jensos ¢ elforts to increase the bible in heathen lands, expedient to ineur further The house ot bishops also recom: Relief Boats Ret Tales of the Catastrophe. Another Story of How Haddook Was sale Destruction of Property mend the apnofutment of a joint commit Killed—The Commission of the —Aid Wanted, to whom shall be referred all reports relating Crime Placed at the Door to the ned and infirm elerzy fund sther of & Fourth Man, The Texas Horror. message recommended that the 1wo connn 't BEAUMONT, Tex.. Oct. 15,—The tirst re- | teos on Christian education, under the auspi ports of the great disaster at Sabine Pass | ces of the ehurch, report such ways and A Bloody Deed Confessed, were not in the least exageerated. In fact | meansas seem practicable. he consecra D Moives, T, Oct. 15, [Special Tele- they underestimated the number of deaths | tion of Rey, Dr. Mahion Gilbert, to de assist- | £1am to the Bev = The muracrer of John caused by the storm. ‘Tlke death roll now | antbishop of Minmesota, wasapproved by the | O- Sclion, whio was Killed in Belleville towne reaches ninety, with a number missing, {tis | house of bishops & ship, Poealiontas county, Scptomber 23, has ught that fully one hundred persons met | | e house of bishops also passed the fol- | just wade a confession. His nameis Otto ; ir death on the night of tre The re- | N 1onse of bishiops takes the opportun: Athen and he was wirested last week on fef party that went down as n: Abine as | jty to assure the house of ¢ eputies of its pro- | Suspicion and to-day he has confessed that possible on the Sabine & East Texas railroad | fonnd mpathy with the sy e murdered John Sclion it of their reso. at the instigation are still there, ‘The train could not get | lutions, 'lh:\Vm‘.vn(lm‘an its hearty re- | of his wife. . ®is confession under examnina- within twelve miles of the ruined town. P i aranaan TOTAILLI0S ‘WHOTOVGtHE |'tign 1 s followa! NEW ORLEANS La,, Oct A special | (iine expoetally for their fellow ehristiing as | .1 am about twenty years old and lived dispateh to the Picayune says the relief boat [ sembled in this eity as the national couneilof [ With Jolin Schon about iwe years. — He Lamar has returned to Beaumont from Sa- icregational ehiirehes in the United States, [ Feted me all tight, LA Do vou remember which Jolin Schon was bine Pass. Only two houses are left the [WhI0 ayoRRs Itd Bolomn, DUITIose | jyjaq 4 e < S under the guidance ot the Holv Spirit to p WY es. " Iatter place. - One hundred and one persons | pitief AWEEERGREE AL I HSLS SPITLEG bre L are missing. ‘The relief _committee 1eports | deputies, some practical plan for bringing [ 1 }YHo 4'd 1t that there are many persons in the vieinity | betore all our fellow eliristians in (his _Jand “WWhat made 1o of Sabine I’ass who are utterly ~ destitute, | Hie duty to our common Lord and Savior, Wkenc SeIIH 168 TH0 16 beiniz without elothing to cover their nakeg. | LMIDALNG the unhapuy ~ divisions whic [T i R L L T B, he LS ¢ . dishonor his heloved name and hinder th SV hat did she say about your killing ness, ‘The committee requests aid for the | trjnmph upon earth ot his glorious kingdom,” | M | destitute, Everything—food, clothing, | The communieation states the resolution is | She said shie wished ha was out of the money—is needed, Out of 13 houses in the | returned with the foregoing statement as the [ WAYisad i1 would get his ont of ‘the way village, lews than siy vomain standing reason for the filure to approve, the resoln. | §5 NS MOLY, Beg, (G e g0 BIOWL S they are rudned. Wives and _children tion contained in the message. - “The houseof | {0240 UIeS, Sl 1ol the that, She Whe swépt away and drowned in the prescic crecd to the change of the name of | 16 'no to kil him ( sl i 1 would put him uld marry me.” fhe dioces kee. their hushands anp fathers, who \were power- of Wisconsin to that of Milwau- | g ot the war sho Iess to save them. The wave broke ag i Sy AL 1 LBr S e e 2 otse T n SOMA WAL Ry ocr his atternoon, after considerable diseus- | i you have llicit intereoiise with her? Honrlig OLE tho Window s AL e ey top S0 | slon, u resolution' was adopted establishing a |, ~Ye sits but don’t know how - mnny the stru Corpses have been picked up [ Missionary council, which: shall neet ‘an- | EWWon qia you kitl Setion nually. Legal advice is to be obtained, re- lative to giving the missionary bishon a vote therein, at a distance of thirty miles from the scene of the disaster. “Thursday iight, two week ago List night, Ishot him ‘with a gun. 1 w as at Schon's o Ehie pectniary dumago at Sabine includinge The board adjourned till ¥riday. | pSule arter 1 killed him. all night. 1 killod at o the government works, will | agere- bt - y him because she told me. Lcould marry hor, gate nearly $520,000, a5 many of neighborine .. The Congrogational Oauncil, L thougit. of shootink. Shion carly t ths Plantations sustained. sorions injury. The | CiIcAGo, Oct, 15.—The entire morning of | sunmer. The night 1 shot him wie names of fifty-five colored victims have not | the Conzregational council to-day was taken [ very dark. I liad been thinkin been ascertained, up in listening to reports of committes about shooting him in the afternoon. 1 quit | An Orange (T It0 the Times- work at sundown and went about thioe wiles from Schon’s to my house, and on the wayi home aud e Upon re: refgn missions, Demoerat fro ndent who was . C. €. Cre an, of with the relief party on steamboat Lar- | Syracuse, N. pof the committee [ made up my mind to shoot him. When T mar dispatehied to the seens of destruction by | i Congregational Sunday Sehool and Pub- | shot him the muzzie of the gun was about the flond at Sabine Pass and Johnson's | Jishing society, made a report recommending | two feet from the window. “His head was Bayou,suys of the latter place: The small boat | that ehurches raise for the use ot the society | about a foot from the window. 1 walked sent out to Johunson’s Bayoun returned to | €100,000 annually during the next three | away the mimute I fived and went to my the steamer in the afternoon with most dis- 5. Without action on the report the con- | house and went to bed and rlept a tressing reports from the community, hun- | Yention took up the resolutions defining the | littie. In the morning 1 went 10 a dreds of persons being drowned as | standing of ministers, Rev. Mr, Orwint [ neighbor’s 1o help dig o woll and teartuland complete destruction of property, | opencd the discussion by reference fo what | heard them say that Jolin Schon had bson ineluding thousands of heads of live stoek. | he eatled the inviduous distinetion made be- | killed. 1 supposed it would be all vizht if [ Ahe Cameron Beach hotel was seriously | fween the acting and regutarly instalied pas- [ put Sehon out of the way, as 1 had been fold threatened, but was saved by the cattle | rors. Rev, Dr Dextor moved that the to do 50 by Mrs. Schon wiany times, [ eame crowding ' into the lower story, | jutigns be refered to & eommitioe of f from Germany to this country and have been thereby preventing the building from | he appointed by the nominating committee, | keepine batel all swmmer. "My only reason floatin off with its upper stories filled with | The' eommittee will be annonneed in the | for shooting Sehon was that 1w terror-stricken humanity. The Emily P | yorning, Adjourned until to-morrow. wite, and took this means of getting her. and relief party for Johnson's Bavou ary yoi S . unheard from, and “full particulars of ihe 5 " PIRE, ! N ACCUSE heRtra T R Moy THE BASIPORT FIRE. ANOTHER MAN ACCUSED. Kyenie out . mml\ l;;‘l’” retuen; ll' Flames Sweep Away the Entire Busi- | A Fourth Man Char, hthe Had- safe o say i 10 e ey rr oo de destruction of life and property was ever 5 GCLL L, AP TR . 8 o "[ e T known before on the Gulf of Mexico, and | EASTPORT. Me., Oct. 15.—The fire which [ Siovx Crry, la, Oct. 15.—[Specjal Telo- help will be needed and is asked frow all | broke outat 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon | gram to the J—=Another story” bearing auarters of the country. raged furionsly for ten Hours, defying all ef- | on the mysterious Haddock murder, and in TR e Eaily | P has just ar- | forts to control or arrest it. 1t started in | which now man is named s the one who Eisoveth ) iaty-two SUIVOTS. | Capon & MeClear's sardine factory and | did the shooting, is enrrent here to-day, It Wwho Wi drowned at Johnson’s Bayou have | sWept in a northerly direction alonz the is basced on what is alleged to be the states been recovered and Sixty-live are still mise- | water front and through Water street, burn- | ment of “Bismarck,” now under arrest, hav- . ing, but theirnames cannot yet be given. Previous accounts haye notbeen exageerated. Phe reliel party report fearful devastation, ‘The government tug Penrose has I\|\i) arrivod Those on ing becn taken in California. He nam Charles Gande as the murderer, His' statement is said to bein substance that Gan- ing ten sardine factorios, two hotels, about thirty dwellins houses, the custom house and postoflice. and every place of business where zoods of any deserijition were kept for sale, bringing the body of Mrs. Junker. 1 ders and himself were the men hired to do T S e : except two Sinnll grocery stores, which were \iisglly J . | board ?E‘\:l;(.,lo(nn) couits of the situation ottt or £ i, i W ipossiole (I St ed By 0 Juld anor e salloy \ o . this thme to make a deta short of the | to do the job. and that Capta 0 i a s, - N " I M,,.‘_}‘m‘a‘l‘ "‘“‘":f‘ Q:?I‘LJ"":"_"_;““" ort Fads, rec | losses sustained or to aseertain the amount | Ganders approachied Haddock to strike him, during the recent storm on the yus lead- | Of insurance, but the total loss will probably | e latter drew something from his pockety | ;nnlmm to at least $500,000, f n: rly covered by ing from the Gulfin the airection o i id back when the assassin fired. All tue nine or ten ardine 1 of the quarantine station, tories, which could not procure insuran witnesscs immediately ran off 1 various | i The factories gave employment to at least | directions, Ganders and himself going to- Destruction at Buffalo, 2,000 persons. — Much suffering must_ensue | gotner. ‘They hid themsclves until after | BUFFALO, N. Y. Oct. 15.--The wind | unless immediate aidis rendered. —Contri- | Joi it 008 Biionen s rowhoat ana | storm which visited Buffalo last ni:ht did a | butions can be forwarded to IHon. N. B. o 3 Conavort Vast amount) of damaga’ Far.al time! the | Nutkicolleclor i ofynusioms 5% Telezraplie || driftor down theiriver. At tlielojye i of | the ity “Bismarek” got ont and went hoiie, his partner continting on down the river. Ganders, the new claimant for publie atton- tion, is but little known here, having lived in the ity but a short time. He is said 10 bo & communication was eut off at 4 o'clock p. m. yesterday, and has just been opened. [tis raining heavily now and the fir tinguished. All the insnrance agents’ records lost. Nearly all the safes were also de- royed with their contents ana many insu wind reached a velocity of seventy miles an hour. On the lake front, in the vicinity of what Is known as the Sea Wall, forty small houses were tolally destroyed by the wind and water, and their occupants had to fly for is ex- o X ance policies, The aggregate loss 15 est sreputable character, & hangeron at their lives. Several persons are known to | mated by the 4'hiurm\|:‘.m§*r of the fire de- lu-nv‘lll"u theatre — and sul(lfun. He have perished. Among them are Charles | partnent and insurance agents at $500,000. | figured frequently —in the police Mitehell and an old man named Johnathan | . The custom house, postofice and Upited | court, and IS certainly jusk Edmunds, The bodies of two children were | States signal service records were burnéd. such’ an abandoned character ° as 5 2 : — would be ready for a job such as he was recovered this morning, also two bodies Sawmill Burned. lected to do. I was always heavily which are unknown at present. On the | Wixx1rnG, Oct, 15,—The sawmlll of James | armed when arrested, and was no_doubt Hawburg turnpike, near the city, twenty or | Canmee, at Dort Arthurwas totally destroyed | Yoy desperate - charcter “with a history, thirty families have been rendered destitute, | 1, 1 \ Ganders is still at larze, and the ofticers ne five last night, The loss is estimated at about $100,000; only partial insurance. Latonia Jockey ery reticent us to whether they lipve any ue us 10 his whereabouts, This makes four accounts of eye witnesses om recond, three naming difertnt parties as the guilty one, and an appeal for aid has been issued. “Througliout the city many buildings were damaged, The most serious damage was 1b Races. ned by the splendid new musie hall. in | CINcINNaTI, Oct. 15.—Seven furlongs: | and the first, thut' of Treiber, not agresing course of construction. A large scction” of | Wateh ’I2m won, Lea sccond, Monarch third, | with any of the others, owingto the fact the rear wall, ‘which was hearly “ready | Timo—1:513. that he claims the assassin approached for the roof, was blown down with | "gi " rurionzs: Bobby Swim won, Mautie | Alcalthily from behind aud ired. : the vicinity like an earthquake. The dam- | Corbett second, Probus third, Time—1:18% < age to the building is estimated at $12,000, [ Mile and half a furlong: Little Fellow won, A llll‘(yhlm,k‘ Memorial Moeting Work on the structure will be greatly delay- | King George second, Atlilone third, Time Stovx Crew, T, Oct. 15,—[Special ed. Mrs, Roberts’ saloon heuse on the Turnpike road was carried about five hundred feet, and the family : were reseued from the building by the police, | Five Turlongs: Banbirg won, Katie A. sec- The oflicers also found a family named | ond, Van thivd, ‘Time—1 Quinn upin atree. ‘Their house had been 7 demolished, and their hired man, John - Ed- Postponed Ball Games, munds, who could not climp the tree, was [ Av PrucAvELPima— gram (o the Bee - The eleventh convention of the Woman's Christ an T perance union of Towa, whizh has been 4 boarding second, Hettie S, third. “I'ime—1:45, in session here the greater portion of the week, | djourned to-d The business session | closed during the afternoon, and a Hu(hhn‘ki memorial meeting was held i the evening drowned. Another house on the Turnpike | Athletie......... 0001010 0-4]|; o M dist ¢hurel The ero was carried away,and the family aremissing, | Metropoiitan.. .2 0 0 2 5 0 0 3 #_ § | Atthe Methodist churell | ibhe crowd, couiddy The scenes on the beach this morning trom: Base hits—Athletic 6, Metropolitan 10. | gway, The exercises were participated in by ||w||uul .‘vr i m““l?“}‘l‘lq ulml ’i"l hunl ml{u ul\\—— Athletic 6, Metropolitan 2. Umpire [ many of the lending temperan ‘e workers of or more to the east bultle deseription ople /alentine, o, e, andwere of a sun intores wel assing in crowds o the heaps of Second Game— {heisisle, audwore of ap unusullyniGLER ing natul wrecked houses and along the beach near the | AfRIetic, ..............c......5 2 0 2 0- — sea wall, whoro the nouses hd stood on | Metropoifun, [o. 00 7/0 1004 0 0 00— 4 Pushing Railroad Work, spiles. i forty or more houses that o hits—Athletie 12, Metropolitan 4. ‘s o Slotd” on tat part GF o Ialand Sostordu. | Enparu— Athictie b Metioporttan a0 taming | . Dis MoINE, I, Oct, 1.—(Spocinl Telgr but thiree or four rewain intact, —Valentine, i graw to the Bui, |—The Minnesota & Northe e western, which is practically identical with Lumber Crafts Safo, Coney Islund Rac the Diagonal, now hus a force of cngineers CmeAGo, Oct. 15.—The river this mornmg [ Buianron Bracy, Ocet. Oct. 15 ~Three- | running lines from Des Moines to St. Joseph between its wouth and the lumber market | ourths mile: Theodosiug won, Pool Box | and Kansas City, the intention being to push presented one of the busiest sights of the | second, Paymaster third, Time-1:18, the whole system to an carly completion, B season from 8 till a few minutes after 9 One mile: Bell Owens won, Mentmore | the 12th of November they will ”\"‘" up n% alock, ‘Ewenty-three vessels, prinelpally | segond, Moonshine third. Time 114035, miles of new roud between Dubtigue and Minneapolis. and grading is being pushed hoven futlongs: Wysona won, Peteisburg | hoiween Dubuque and Chicago. | When eons second, Miller th e b D ARG ARG e nate enough to have gained the west shore [ One and one-eignth mile [isted chis wilthe ope of Bos Molnes Mg before the storm canghit them and 1u conse- | Joo Mitehell sccond, Supery ¥ PRMEH quence were enabled to beat down without | —1:56% difficnlty, all wrriving in port ship safo. with o excopilon of u few that lost some of their sails, lumber bookers, had passed the barge office at Rush street, All these erafts were fortu- \caster won, rthird, Time (. One and one-sixteenth mlles: Jim Donglas won, Saxony secoud, Mamie Hunt third, Timé—1:51. Getting Rid of His Wife, Dunvquy, Tu, Oct. 15.—[Special Tele: gram to the Bk, |—The house of Otto Wese termyer, a farmer in Northfork township, Delaware county, was burned this morn g, -~ Affairs in Manitoba, WINNIPEG, Oct, 15,~In opening the north- —— Rumored Steamboat Disaster, BosTON, Oct. 16,—A special to the Herald o 4 His erippled wife perished, Westermyer wi N R m.‘: The steamer New | West council at Regina Wednosday last Gov- | discovered by a nefghbor tescuing his childs o i o1t e et it SOW | ernor Dewey stated that the 187 townships | ren. Mo i suspected with haying burned the about twelve miles out from Digby last night, | 1 the territories heard from reported that house to destroy i wife. It is alleged he + Wht s6en 10 send 1p rockels, and fiames were | 7151 acres wore under cuitivation and that has boou Intimate with thie hirod girl seen in the place where she stood. It s aroe athew e hat o thioken, Affaires in Mexico. supposed her boiler burst. There | with 5,in pupils With regard to Indian | C1TY 0F MEXico, Oct. 1o, -1t is believed ¢ were one hundred passengers ‘on board. | affairs the leutenant governor stated that | here that the new mortgaze loan to be placed l‘\w cuptalns of ,'“’":'!".,‘3'“'1“ saw the | there never was a time when the Indians | by e National Iway company to com- gleamerand corroborate the reports. 101a | were mare contented and elicerful or better | pieta s main e will bo largeiy subscribed s ats would have white brethren thun at disposed toward their present. to by the A bondholders despite the thot the English bond= rlean predietion made here she had taken fire, the bo time to reach the shore long before now o — - the bay was calm. Evidently something had A Kentucky Killing. holders will take the new loan and happened to the steamer, as all agree that SOMIRSET Oct. 15, —Henry Bogle, | B¢ control the road. Under — the befure dark shie remained in the same place NEBSET, By Lol Boxle, | yyrangements wroposed the Pacitie division for liours. Many persons having fricnds on | Shecial United States bailiff, and Edward } will remain in eharge of the construction board are almost wild with suspenise. Logan, spee'al United States commissioner, | company, and will have no connection what- over wifll the finar ing the mam line English e 15 affeet- 1 arrangen Two American and ons 1paily are contesting te ¢ mivack ed for the drafnuze of the valley . The contract involyes the exponls 6,000,000, S1. Jonss, N, B., Oct. 15,—Tha steamer New Biunswick was'seen’ this morning, all it, forty miles below Grand Monad. - No Diseased Milk. CicaGo, Oct. 1h.—Justios met in the oftice of the latter this morning, and, after a few words were exchanged, both drew their pistols and began firing. ‘Three balls took eifcet 1 Bogle's body, and two in Logaw's. Both are dyig, Bogle and Logn | are old revenue ofiicers and promivent citi- zens of the county Tuley this - morning dissolved the injunction which the S The Wabaush's Affairs. milkmen had secured against Health Com dereey Justice. 81 Lovis, Mo, Oet, 10.~The deed of the missioner DeWolf, who had prohibitea the BELVIDEKE, N. d., Oct. Piie fury in | Wabash property was acknowledgod in 1@ sale of any milk taken from the cowsatany | the Pitus case tendered a vordiet of mur- | federal court today by the master. An in- of the distilieries where quarantine exists. | der in the first degree. at 8 o'ciock this | teivening petition was files the case, seeks ‘The judee commented severely on the at- | worning an | burst into tears | fng 1o establish & claim of 845,000, 1 respect tempt of the wilk dealers totraflic in such | after ainouncing the verdiet, On- the | of the rental conpons of the St~ Lous, ¢ #a unwholesome and dangerous food, and said | tivst ballot the firy stood ¥l & deainst the | tumwa & Ced ids railioad, as o cliar.e wat Dr, DeWolf's order should be enforced. | prisoner as guillty” ot muides ln List de- | upon the Wabash fu; i the b e Sonié twenty-tive wilk dealers are allected. 1 Eree. ‘I Fecely e,